EA to Charge Over 80 Dollars for PS4 Games

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EA to Charge Over 80 Dollars for PS4 Games

European retailer GAME says that EA will be charging £54.99 for their PS4 games. This is news to a lot of folks as most games on current consoles in the region are £44.99. This appears to be limited to EA at the moment. GAME says:

At present, the only publisher to confirm costs of their next generation games are EA, attaching a price of £54.99

This £54.99 price converts to almost $81 US dollars. Hopefully this changes before the PS4 releases later this year. If EA is the only publisher doing this then perhaps it won’t be so bad. Sadly, I think they can get away with this price hike.

If not, then I think EA is purposely trying to kill themselves or something. Why on earth would someone want to pay an extra $20 for a game when all other games are cheaper, and might even be better? It's bad enough that they overprice their DLC and were one of the first to start the Online Pass crap.

This only bothers me because of Need for Speed. Pricing up games for whatever bs reason they have is a damn good way to help me turn away from the series this upcoming generation.

Sounds like placeholder hasn't been changed, and probably by some whiny fan boy who hates EA. When it actually happens, complain. For now, save the rumors and the speculation until there's something more definitive.

I was just thinking about that same thread. Can't believe people actually think this rumor is true. I guess their eagerness to hate EA is just so far up their asses that they can't face the fact that this would be too idiotic to be done.

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I was just thinking about that same thread. Can't believe people actually think this rumor is true. I guess their eagerness to hate EA is just so far up their asses that they can't face the fact that this would be too idiotic to be done.

Which is exactly why I would think EA would do it.

Of course I'm not saying that I think this is true, I'm just saying I hope it isn't true, while forgetting about that thread Kiomia linked until I saw it.

When you think about it prices for everything increase, we know it as inflation. However videogames havent had a rise in price, so what this means is that since new games come out with the same release price of 60 dollars or 50 the people involved in the video game bussiness makes less money because their game does not adjust for inflation. This could be an attempt to increase profits and stop losing money due to inflation. I can understand why, but as a consumer i wouldnt want that to happen.